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Palin Aides Peeked Into Trooper's Files, Union Says
CNN ^ | 9/4/08 | Matt Smith and Scott Bronstein

Posted on 09/04/2008 9:14:46 PM PDT by steve-b

Aides to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin improperly obtained her former brother-in-law's state police personnel files and cited information from those records to raise complaints about the officer, the head of Alaska's state police union said Thursday.

"It's apparent to us that the governor or someone on her staff had direct access to his personnel file, as well as his workers' comp file, and those are protected," said John Cyr, executive director of the Alaska Public Safety Employees Association.

Palin, now the Republican candidate for vice president, is battling allegations that she sacked her public safety commissioner in July because he refused to fire Trooper Mike Wooten, her sister's ex-husband.

The governor has denied any wrongdoing....

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 2008rncconvention; filegate; mccainpalin; palin; palinrippedmyflesh; pds; sarahpalin; troopergate; unions
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1 posted on 09/04/2008 9:14:47 PM PDT by steve-b
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BS gate goes on.


2 posted on 09/04/2008 9:16:02 PM PDT by Red Steel
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Oh, stop it CNN.

We know YOUR drill.

Face it, the Obomination won’t win.


3 posted on 09/04/2008 9:16:08 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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The Good-Old-Boys network trying to bring down a reformer. She must be really strong to have dealt with these thugs for so long.


4 posted on 09/04/2008 9:16:13 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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Get lost dirtbag.


5 posted on 09/04/2008 9:17:05 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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yawn....


6 posted on 09/04/2008 9:17:32 PM PDT by 50cal Smokepole (John Gard for Congress; WI 8th CD)
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"It's apparent to us that the governor or someone on her staff had direct access to his personnel file

Apparent? umm- from the way it sounds, she knew enough about him to justify firing him with or without the file...

7 posted on 09/04/2008 9:17:38 PM PDT by TheBattman (A vote for the "lesser evil" is still a vote for evil!)
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To: steve-b

So CNN when are you guys going to give Obama the a-exam? Oh, how can I forget, you guys are too busy kissing his rear.


8 posted on 09/04/2008 9:18:18 PM PDT by Red Steel
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“Union”

All you need to know. I had more respect for the Police Unions, but that is quickly waning.


9 posted on 09/04/2008 9:18:26 PM PDT by DAC21
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Wow..this so reminds me of CNN’s reporting in 1992..their intense digging into all of clinton’s scandals..right?..right?..


10 posted on 09/04/2008 9:18:26 PM PDT by BerniesFriend
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The files of the man who THREATENED TO KILL HER FATHER?
11 posted on 09/04/2008 9:18:37 PM PDT by icwhatudo (If my brother-n-law threatened to kill my father-I'd tell his boss too (Just like Palin did))
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Breaking news.....

Palin ate a baby once.

/s

She is awesome and the more they attack her the stronger she looks.


12 posted on 09/04/2008 9:19:18 PM PDT by volunbeer (Dear heaven.... we really need President Reagan again!)
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CNN is heartbroken as they watch their boy’s halo start to fade. Sorry losers!


13 posted on 09/04/2008 9:19:51 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (McCain/Palin '08! Real change you won't have to "believe in." You'll be able to see it!!!)
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I’m SOOOO sure police nationwide are going to vote Obama. Right?


14 posted on 09/04/2008 9:19:58 PM PDT by montag813
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...AND tasered a kid. Oh, the shame, the shame. (I trust the /sarc tag isn’t necessary...)


15 posted on 09/04/2008 9:20:07 PM PDT by SAJ
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“So, were the files in secured, locked cabinets? Is it possible that staffers in the off may have verbally mentioned confidential information to others?”

“Was any information disclosed in any legal discovery actions? Do the words “OJ Trial” have any meaning to you?”

“Private” files certainly didn’t protect Mark Furman’s work comp disability testimony.

Honestly, when is this CNN silliness going to stop?!


16 posted on 09/04/2008 9:20:17 PM PDT by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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CNN must have been beside themselves when it was discovered that Hillary had 900+ FBI files in the WH. Sanctimonious buggers.


17 posted on 09/04/2008 9:20:55 PM PDT by sofaman (Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda Meir)
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Wow. It’s Watergate all over again. I’m on the edge of my seat. /s


18 posted on 09/04/2008 9:21:16 PM PDT by FreePoster (Political correctness will not die of its own sickness. It has to be killed by the ideas of freedom.)
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No surprise, our local Obamite Stevie still busy here pushing Obama campaign supporter's propganda.

Sorry head of the Union would have NO way of knowing what the Aides of the Gov did or did not do. This is pure and total BS. Reporting this rumor as “news” is journalistic malpractice of the worst sort.

The accuser clearly has a political bias (Unions support Obama), clearly is not in a position to know any facts they claim to know and clearly has no way to provide any proof to back up his accusation.

Therefor any competent journalist would not run this story since it is cearly campaign driven disinformation unless they could cooberate it with 2 or 3 other sources. CNN of course did not bother to do any of the basic journalistic tasks merely rushed to publish this fraudlent attack as "news"

19 posted on 09/04/2008 9:21:27 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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Did they stick the files down their pants, too? Because that’d be ok, right, CNN?


20 posted on 09/04/2008 9:21:30 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Sarah Palin--the man Biden and Obama wish they could be.)
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